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When Migration co-owner Rob Jones told me that artist Peter Krebs had created several of his large charcoal-on-plywood drawings of trees with the intention of displaying them on the ceiling,...

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In my world, there is bad negative space and good negative space. Bad negative space would be my mood last Tuesday, when I felt crushed by deadlines and friendships that seemed...

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September's First Friday promised a cure for the August of my discontent. Galleries whose walls went bare for the past few weeks opened their new seasons. But the weather was sweaty...

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We are now officially in disaster season. Between anniversaries of the catastrophes of Hurricane Katrina and 9-11, the end of summer has laid bare just how un-invincible we actually...

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Peter Whitehead shooting The Fall
My father once confessed he worried that I was leading a "zig-zag" life. My career meanderings, however, look like a straight line compared to Liverpool-born Peter...

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This week in my ongoing search for interesting art in August, I drive south on a sweltering day to view " Stolen Moments III," the Scottsville Council for the Arts' annual exhibition...

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"If it was perfect, it wouldn't be art." That sentence– spoken by my Lexington High School art teacher, Barbara Crawford after I'd accidentally put a big black blob in the middle of a pen-...

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When I met James Ford eight years ago, he was burning with creative energy as a high school student enrolled in Light House Studio's first video workshop. Since then, he's studied film and video...

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Imagine you're out of town and someone asks you to describe Charlottesville. What images flash to mind? Monticello? The Downtown Mall? Thomas Jefferson? A view of the Blue...

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When photographer Mary Motley Kalergis checked into a DC hotel a few years ago, she was shocked to find men laced and strapped into leather corsets, thongs, and boots strolling through the...

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Tuesday, May 1, was the quintessential Bad Day. An editor e-mailed to inform me an assignment I'd submitted was un-publishable, a message he topped with this cherry of encouragement: "I can't...

0 commentsYou're probably seen Charles Ebbets' 1932 photograph "Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper." Eleven construction workers sit side by side on a girder high above New York City, feet dangling as they casually...

1 commentsInspired and repelled– that was my seemingly schizophrenic response to the exhibition, "Alumni in the Arts: Bazzle / Brown-Epstien / Jones," currently on view at the University of Virginia Art...

1 commentsLooking at Dona Ruff's exhibition, "And on the seventh day..." currently hanging at Piedmont Virginia Community College, I suddenly remembered my college friend Andy's favorite joke. If we ran across...

0 commentsIn The Digital Journalist, longtime National Geographic photographer Sam Abell recalls the only sentence he learned from Vanuatu's Namba people in 1973 was "I'd like to go to the garden today."...

0 commentsTake a minute to picture your parents. How do you see them? Young? Old? Smiling? Frowning? Doing something specific? Johnny Fogg wants to know.
For over a year, Fogg has been cultivating the "...

0 commentsHave you ever wondered what goes into a tube of paint? Even if you haven't, Victoria Finlay's Color: A Natural History of the Palette will open your eyes to startling facts underlying the manufacture...

0 commentsWhen photorealist painter Tim O'Kane last showed in Charlottesville in 2005, his sunny-day vistas looking across Italian tiled rooftops were so precise in every detail that viewers could practically...

0 comments"Today we seem to be increasingly fixated on things (cell phones, PDAs, televisions, cars, celebrities), and have less and less time to appreciate or even notice our surroundings," writes curator...

0 commentsHigh school– whether you loved it or loathed it (like me), chances are you recall at least one teacher who sparked your imagination. I suspect for many St. Anne's Belfield students, that person...